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		drawingthesun on Sept 5, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FLAC – Format overview Would applying a lossless compression algorithm to the data such as zip or 7z after the algorithm you describe reduce the file even size even more? Wondering if FLAC already does this or if such a feature could be added?

tgv on Sept 5, 2022 [–]

These methods perform poorly on audio, so even worse on compressed audio. Just try it on a wav and a flac file.

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